3. The Jaguar - Prey of the Jaguar (1996)
"Nothing has prepared them for his kind of justice." Damn straight. And so goes the tagline for 1996's Prey of the Jaguar, which asks the bold question: what happens when a special forces dude turned martial artist sets out to seek revenge on those who murdered his family, but does it kind of like a jaguar might? This movie has Maxwell Caulfield suiting up as a man-cat, going out and brutally murdering people for 96 agonising minutes. The big question, of course: does he make the Jaguar feel like somebody you wouldn't want to mess with? No, of course not. Be it the low budget or the lazy script that kills the immersion from the very first minute, there's no way for a human being to find the Jaguar's exploits anything but laughable. The Jaguar tries to be a little bit Batman, of course, what with all the prowling and an assortment of gadgets (blow darts covered in sleeping potion - very jaguar-y). Looking at this thing, then, it's no wonder Hollywood was nervous about putting money into superhero movies in 1996. Hm... I think Prey of the Jaguar might have killed Maxwell Caulfield's career.